Upload speeds- Ever going to increase?

zuma

1huge1 wrote:

lol ive isdn and only download about 8gb a year come on what a sad sad person

Or else a very smart pirate...makeing thousands a week selling pirated Movies/Music/Games!!!
Dont be too smug until you know a little more.

Cabaal

Gonzo wrote:

if eircom do bring out some voip broadband package with good upload speed they are gonna charge a fortune costing well beyond the affordable means of most broadband gamers while leaving the current packages stuck on 128k upload I reckon:(

all we want is the normal 256k upload for residential broadband thats the minimum standard in every other country. 256k upload would be good enough for most games.

Eircom are not going to be the only company bring out VoIP services, so far almost every provider has said they will very soon
- NTL
- Esat BT
- Digiweb
etc

So while eircom may overprice it they still need to compete with the likes of NTL who can promote their product to plenty of people in Dublin, Galway & Waterford who will be more then happy to port their standard number from Eircom to their VoIP service (at present you can port your 01 or 051 etc PSTN eircom number to the likes of blueface)

After all with NTL you'll be able to get TV, Telephone & Internet over the same line..


On the the related subject of caps and upload speed, at present I know about 10 people who have either moved from Eircom to NTL or got NTL as their first BB package, this is only since NTL have rolled out BB in Waterford.

ricey

I got 256k upload with digiweb and thats still crap!

Sponge Bob

ricey wrote:

I got 256k upload with digiweb and thats still crap!

If smart ever go live in your area you could always get their 4096/512 product with 6 static IPs (described as a business product) . Its almost €150 a month including VAT though but it is the fastest DSL upload in Ireland .

bk

davidoco wrote:

eircom (my source wouldn't give up anything more so don't ask) in April this year were preparing a product to go to the market in the coming months regarding VOIP. They have pushed it back a bit because SMART ain't that smart when it comes to getting the customers. In essence they are ready with the killer solution to VOIP if and when the market looks for it or it looks like somebody else (like Skype) are getting popular here.

I'd say it will be NTL in a few months who will force Eircom into VoIP. NTL have plans to launch a VoIP service by the end of the year and also expect to have all of Galway, Waterford and (maybe) Dublin BB enabled by the end of the year. So they will be a major threat to Eircom, actually a much bigger threat then Smart.

However from what you described above, it sounds like Eircom still don't understand their own market and are going to make another balls of this like they have with the time based BB product.

You see Eircom doen't need to sell a VoIP product, they can certainly make use of the technology behind the scenes to reduce costs, but their customers don't really care about the technocalities of VoIP, all the customers care about are the cheap prices of VoIP.

The reason why so many people are excitied about VoIP on NTL is that you won't have to pay the €25 line rental to Eircom anymore. Instead you just pay for the calls, thus saving you a lot of money and just one bill.

However if Eircom introduce VoIP and you still have to pay the €25 line rental on top of the cost of BB and the cost of the VoIP, then Eircom has missed the point entirely and no one is going to care about it. What Eircom needs to do is reduce the line rental by €10 and offer free call packages on top of that.

BTW Eircom already offer VoIP services to their business customers. Many of whom are already enjoying the cost savings of VoIP.

bk

Sponge Bob wrote:

If smart ever go live in your area you could always get their 4096/512 product with 6 static IPs (described as a business product) . Its almost €150 a month including VAT though but it is the fastest DSL upload in Ireland .

Actually www.leap.ie offer SDSL products with 1m and 2m upload speeds, making them the fastest DSL upload speeds in Ireland. But in fairness these are much more expensive then Smart.

Sponge Bob

ESAT offer SDSL as well , pricing similarly high.

In fairness the SLA on these products is higher as well ,an engineer will be on site in minutes if a Leap SDSL circuit goes down.

Smart offer the fastest Asymettrical Upload speed then bk

Blaster99

Sponge Bob wrote:

ESAT offer SDSL as well , pricing similarly high.

They do? I'd say these companies would do a lot better if they could ever advertise services they offer. I couldn't find any mentioning of SDSL on btireland.com. Do you have any specific details? Unlike Smart, BT's LLU services are actually available in quite a few places.

Sponge Bob

No real details on the BT website . SDSL is available on the same 40 exchanges as their business ADSL . Punt a number into the availibility checker for ADSL and it will tell you all the available packages including SDSL .

Try

Cabaal

Sponge Bob wrote:

Punt a number into the availibility checker for ADSL and it will tell you all the available packages including SDSL .

Try

May I suggest the direct link to their checker instead > http://register.iol.ie/dsl/cli_check.htm


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Sponge Bob

Cabaal wrote:

We are happy to inform you that the following
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Not less than €1250 a month I'll wager .